Measles alert!

Measles alert! (core activity)

6 hours total MATHS, SCIENCE, ENGLISH

Key questions
Science: How do you stop a measles outbreak? What is herd immunity?
Activity overview
A dramatic multimedia simulation of a modern measles outbreak, using real data from the 2013 Swansea epidemic. Children take on roles in an Outbreak Control Team and use their maths and science skills to analyse and fight the outbreak, and their English skills to communicate with the media and persuade the public to vaccinate their children.

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The PowerPoint presentation files are very large in size as they contain embedded video. The compressed presentations have lower quality video images to reduce file sizes but they are still large files.